How much for a Merc. unit?

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|* How much would one have to pay for employing a mercinary unit over a
|* long or short periode. What would it be for a Special Force Commando
|* Group what would a "nice price" be, single assignment or many.

The gating criteria here is:

	1) What size unit?
	2) Equipped to what TL?
	3) How much support does their employer intend to supply?
	4) What is the mission?

... and not necessarily in the order of priority.   Also, is this
a success only ticket?

A merc unit that one of my players (the unit has since become a
corporation and are used as NPC's in my campaigns) was involved in
actually performed a ticket for "free".  A merchant concern got
tired of its ships being hijacked by a band of pirates.  Since
they (the merchants) knew where they (the pirates) were, they were
quite miffed when the Imperial Navy wouldn't supply any forces to
crush the pirates.  Enter Armageddon Industries, a merc unit that
was definitely making a name for themselves.  The deal struck?

Armageddon Industries supplied a company sized assault force.  The
merchant company would supply ships as needed to transport and
land the force at the pirate's base (a large moon orbiting a gas
giant) as well as provide transport for the extraction.
Armageddon Industries would be allowed to "capture" as much booty
as they could find at the pirate base as well as being entitled to
any reward monies as would be paid by Imperial authorities for the
capture of said pirates.   It turned out to be very profitable for
the mercs.



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Haraldur Karlsson [email removed] writes:

> How much would one have to pay for employing a mercinary unit over a
> long or short periode. What would it be for a Special Force Commando
> Group what would a "nice price" be, single assignment or many.

The troops get paid in two ways.  First, they get monthly salaries like
anyone else.  Second, they get shares of the final profit from a mission,
once expenses and salaries have been taken out of the payment.  Higher
ranking members of the unit get more shares.

The standard salaries and shares for the troops, given in Ye Olde Booke 4,
"Mercenary", are as follows:

Rank				Salary		Shares
- ---- 				------		------
Private				300		1
Lance Corporal			400		2
Corporal			450		3
Lance Sergeant			500		3
Sergeant			550		4
Gunnery Sergeant		600		4
Leading Sergeant		700		5
First Sergeant			800		6
Sergeant Major			1000		7
Second Lieutenant		1000		5
First Lieutenant		1200		6
Captain				1400		7
Major				1600		8
Lt. Colonel			1800		9
Colonel				2000		10

Before shares are determined, the ticket holder (usually the unit commander
and his business partners) deduct 50% of the payment as profit.

Salaries of deceased members go to the next of kin or designated recipient.
Shares go only to surviving members.

These are the standard payments.  It is up to the employer and the mercenary
commander to negotiate higher rates for such things as a particularly skilled
unit, a particularly tough job, etc.  The contract may give a fixed sum, which
the unit can divide up how it likes, or it may specify standard salaries, or
double salaries, etc.  If the total payment doesn't cover all the salaries,
the mercenaries may get angry.  Getting mercenaries angry is probably another
candidate for Mike Metlay's old list of How To Die Young. :-)

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